I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Maya Angelou’s Poem

Abstract

Language is vehicle to transfer and exchange of information, it is not a plain thing but it carries with itself a very dangerous poison though not always but it is more dangerous than any other weapon in the world.This research paper discusses with critical discourse analysis of ‘I know why the caged bird sings’, a brilliant and fascinating poem of Maya Angelo. to evaluate of discrimination against Negro people. It highlights on racist ideology of underestimating black men. The key aims and objects are to investigate lexical, structural and rhetorical tactics which have been used for this purpose. In this study, researcher would analyze poem with Mills (2008) and Van Dijk (2006)selective eclectic model.